Saint Michael Garicoits wrote...

The Birth of Our Lord

A God has come down: he has become man and has assumed our nature.
A humiliated God: he has become victim and has assumed all our weaknesses.
A God in poverty: He has assumed our poverty and accepted the most despicable insults.
Behold a Child: This is the beginning of human life, wrapped in swaddling clothes.

(M 543)